It's cold. Really cold. School hasn't closed any more, but we thought it might several days this week since it was colder than the January dates we were closed. I think the threat of being in school all those extra days in June helped keep the doors open in February! The trade off is that walkers get driven to school. We live an adult's 5 minute/child's 8 minute walk (about 20 houses) away from the school. For winter we drive past the first 15 houses and then park and walk the last 5 houses and up to the door. One day a neighbor even picked up William and drove him with her son through the drop off line, so he was only outside to walk from the street down to the playground and into the building. He hasn't wanted to try the drop off line with us since it's pretty intimidating without a friend. :-)
Here's a picture of the day I made him wear a snow suit to walk outside for 3 minutes. He didn't want his picture taken!
One good thing is that people know how to deal with the snow around here. It snowed around 18 inches on Super Bowl Sunday and at least a foot of it is still around. The school plows the snow off of the grass between the curb and sidewalk along the drop off line. I saw the grass exposed and thought it was due to a freak warm up. My neighbor friend (who has a 2nd grader so is WAY more experienced with the school than me!) said they plow it right away so kids can get their car doors open and easily hop out in the drop off line. Seriously ingenious.
